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An Evolutionary Optimization Approach to Risk Parity Portfolio Selection

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In this paper we present an evolutionary optimization approach to solve the risk parity portfolio selection problem. While there exist convex optimization approaches to solve this problem when long-only portfolios are considered, the optimization problem becomes non-trivial in the long-short case. To solve this problem, we propose a genetic algorithm as well as a local search heuristic. This algorithmic framework is able to compute solutions successfully. Numerical results using real-world data substantiate the practicability of the approach presented in this paper.

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  • Ronald Hochreiter, 2014. "An Evolutionary Optimization Approach to Risk Parity Portfolio Selection," Papers 1411.7494, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2015.
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